# Chapter 306: Instance Authorization
Grabbing the hair flying from the black shadow, he forcibly pulled it out, only to find that what came out in the end was a player covered in pus-filled blisters.
The person was already unconscious, with blisters growing from their neck up to the edge of their jawbone, though their face wasn't completely covered yet.
Taking the person with him, he continued upstairs. The bandage monster and zombie he had seen earlier had swollen into giants, stuck in the floor and looking somewhat comical, their movements also hindered.
Xu Huo suddenly noticed a human-shaped object under the swollen giant's foot. He walked over and tried to pull the person out but couldn't. He couldn't help looking up at the bandage monster above. The thought of moving it away had just flashed through his mind when the floor spacing rapidly increased, and the bandage monster was sent into the distance by the writhing ground, freeing up the space beneath its feet.
"Save... save me..." The "human-shaped object" at his feet suddenly reached out and grabbed his shoe. It was Xiao Gao, the Special Defense Department player who had "turned into" a zombie.
He had actually regained consciousness again.
Although these people and the products of mental contamination had chased them to the fourth floor, as the density of contamination increased, these players should have sunk deeper.
Pulling the person out of the pus, he placed them together with the person wrapped in hair against the wall, then continued climbing the stairs.
Besides those bizarre things, the pus blisters underfoot were like mud. One step down, and half a leg would sink in, with hands below pulling at him forcefully.
Before he even reached the fifth floor, pus and monsters surged from all directions, wrapping around him airtightly, leaving only enough space for his head. The pus blister within arm's reach suddenly burst, and a woman's head covered in blood emerged from it, opening her mouth to stick out a long tongue at him.
Xu Huo's hand, wrapped in the pus, suddenly stabbed out, grabbing the tongue and yanking it down hard. "This is getting a bit disgusting."
The woman's head was torn off, and the blocked path ahead revealed a narrow passage.
Shaking off the restraints on his body, Xu Huo walked out of the pus. After only a dozen steps, the path ahead was sealed again. Blood seeped from the pulsating flesh wall, quickly rising to knee level.
He turned to go back, but the path behind had already disappeared. He was trapped in a flesh cavity.
Sticking his hand into the flesh wall, Xu Huo felt around a few times, then pulled hard outward. A door leading to the fifth floor appeared, and he immediately stepped inside.
As soon as the door closed, the monsters, flesh walls, pus, and ghost-like things behind him all vanished, leaving only pitch-black darkness.
Unable to see anything, he couldn't tell directions. Xu Huo fumbled in the darkness and found a step leading upstairs, but he didn't go up. Instead, he chose to keep walking. Soon, his foot encountered a second step, and after a few more steps, a third step appeared.
The third floor had only one staircase, but now there were steps everywhere under his feet.
Trying to open a door in the air failed, so Xu Huo had to stop. At that moment, a patch of light suddenly appeared ahead. Tang Guangbo sat in his office speaking: "You think that's reality, but it's actually an illusion. However, the human brain is the most precise instrument in the world. Reality and illusion are relative."
As the words ended, the light disappeared, and darkness once again enveloped his vision.
Xu Huo stood in the darkness for a while. Before long, a bit of white grew from beneath his feet, slowly forming a spiral staircase behind him.
Walking up the white spiral staircase, he opened the door at the end. Behind the door was the sixth floor.
The sixth floor looked no different from before, except the medical staff had become Yu Qingqing, Zhou Ning, and Dai Wenqian, among others. Besides them, there were also his family members, including Xu Zhi.
They stood in a row ahead, smiling at him.
Xu Huo walked past these people without stopping until he reached Xu Zhi.
Xu Zhi smiled without speaking, then stepped aside and pointed to the scroll on the table behind him.
Xu Huo unrolled it, and the first words that caught his eye were "Instance Authorization."
Congratulations, player Passerby A, for obtaining an Instance Authorization. Since you have contributed to the generation of this new instance and have a high compatibility with it, you may choose whether to become the holder of this new instance's authority.
To become an instance authority holder, you must follow the three rules below.
First, the instance authority holder will suspend and retain their player status. While holding the instance, they do not need to complete one instance mission per month, but they must follow the instance into other game zones randomly and cannot leave the instance site freely. If the Instance Authorization or instance site is lost, they will revert to player status.
Second, since this newly generated instance is an E-grade random instance, the instance authority holder may write up to three instance missions, but must comply with the content and logic of the E-grade random instance. These missions must be approved by the game before taking effect.
Third, the instance authority holder may choose to participate or not participate in the game, but during the instance, the Instance Authorization must appear within the instance site.
The authorization takes effect from the date of signing. If the player does not need the instance authorization to take effect immediately, they may retain the authorization. However, please note that any instance must be activated at least once within twelve calendar months. If the Instance Authorization has not taken effect within twelve calendar months, it will permanently expire.
If you wish the Instance Authorization to take effect, please write your player nickname and ID number in the signature space.
On the semi-transparent scroll, the instance name, background, and missions were all blank, but only the mission section could be filled in.
Xu Huo hadn't come back to save those trapped people. He wanted to test how far he could hold out in the mental contamination zone. Saving people was just incidental. He never expected the game to give him such a big surprise.
An Instance Authorization. As long as he signed and wrote down the instance missions, he could avoid the monthly player missions and maximize his evasion of death threats in instances.
However, this was only an E-grade instance, with a low level and the strict condition that the Instance Authorization could not be damaged.
The Instance Authorization had to be placed in the instance site during the instance. He finally understood why Skinner's instance had collapsed back then. The animal skin he had accidentally burned should have contained the Instance Authorization. It was equivalent to a business license—without it, the instance couldn't be activated.
Becoming an instance authority holder could indeed avoid monthly instance risks, but it also came with its own risks.
That was the retention of player status. If the Instance Authorization or instance site was lost, the holder would revert to player status. But during the instance, not being able to leave the instance site made it difficult to raise one's player level. The evolution agents and props obtained from players entering the instance were too low-level. Staying in a random instance meant lagging behind in evolution.
Therefore, while this Instance Authorization was a pleasant surprise for Xu Huo, he would not choose to become an instance authority holder.
But it was indeed a good thing. The usage rules were worth studying carefully.